Using S3 and Cloudfront together with W3

  • Resolved brian.m.cummings

    (@brianmcummings)


    8 years, 9 months ago

    I’ve been using W3 for years and it’s been great. My media library is starting to take up too much space on my VPS and I’d like to move files to Amazon S3. I know I can push files to S3 or have Cloudfront pull from my VPS. What I’d like to do is push attachments to S3 AND have Cloudfront pull from both my VPS and S3 using W3. Has anyone done this? If so, could you offer some advice?

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  • Hi Brian,

    In what circumstances should Cloudfront pull from S3, and when should it pull from the VPS?

    If you are pushing all of your attachments to an S3 bucket, you can point Cloudfront to that S3 bucket. In this case, the S3 bucket becomes the source, so there is no need for Cloudfront to pull from the VPS at all.

    Thread Starter brian.m.cummings

    (@brianmcummings)

    Thanks Joetek,

    If I change my CDN to S3 Push, won’t I no longer be able to specify Cloudfront as the hostname? Do I then need to use a CNAME to reference Cloudfront?

    Hey Brian,

    You set W3TC to push to an S3 bucket, so now all uploads, attachments, includes, etc are mirrored within the S3 bucket. Then you set up a Cloudfront distribution, but instead of pointing the origin at your original domain name, you point it at the S3 bucket. (When you click on “Origin Domain Name”, a list of your S3 buckets will show up)

    Just like with a pull distribution, you can point W3TC to that xxx.cloudfront.net domain or you can CNAME it to something more friendly.

    Hope that helps!

    Joe

    Thread Starter brian.m.cummings

    (@brianmcummings)

    That worked. Thanks Joe!

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